ADMINISTRATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT: You have NOT been banned

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:31 am

Dear MormonDiscussions.com participants:

Lately I've been getting much more zealous with banning IP addresses belonging to spam- and porn-bots.

It recently came to my attention that in my eagerness, I mistakenly specified an overly-broad IP range that caused one of our legitimate members to be inadvertently banned, too.

THEREFORE: If you're reading this and, when you try to log on, you get a message stating that you've been permanently banned, then the message is in error--you haven't been banned. Please send me an e-mail at drshades1@gmail.com and I'll fix things for you.

Thanks for your patience and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Post by **_Paracelsus** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:31 am

FYI
http://www.torproject.org/
http://www.answers.com/topic/tor-anonymity-network

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:21 am

Uh, thanks, Paracelsus, but what does that have to do with the opening post?

Post by **_Nomomo** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:31 pm

Dr. Shades wrote:Uh, thanks, Paracelsus, but what does that have to do with the opening post?

Tor can be useful, particularly within Firefox, but not for normal browsing. Slow as molasses for typical surfing. But if being used to register and post circumventing a board banning it works alright. But you are right that has nothing to do with the topic of the opening post.

Post by **_Paracelsus** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:34 pm

The spambot hidden behind tor (or similar Southwest) can present IP addresses which can be the same as of a real user.

OK, making the range broader can cause more side effect ...

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:57 pm

Paracelsus wrote:The spambot hidden behind tor (or similar Southwest) can present IP addresses which can be the same as of a real user.

So far 75% of the spam-bots have been originating from either the Ukraine or Russia. 20% have been from the British Virgin Islands.

So I don't think they've keyed into TOR yet.

Post by **_The Nehor** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:46 pm

Dr. Shades wrote:So far 75% of the spam-bots have been originating from either the Ukraine or Russia. 20% have been from the British Virgin Islands.

It's their revenge for the Cold War. Admit that you lost losers.

Post by **_Imwashingmypirate** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:54 pm

British virgin islands?

Can I add you to gmail shades?

Post by **_Dr. Shades** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:56 pm

Imwashingmypirate wrote:British virgin islands?

Can I add you to gmail shades?

Yes and yes.

Post by **_Imwashingmypirate** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:46 pm

:D cool

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